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A vesicle is a bubble of liquid within a cell. More technically, a vesicle is a small, intracellular, membrane-enclosed sac that stores or transports substances within a cell. Vesicles form naturally because of the properties of lipid membranes (see micelle). Most vesicles have specialized functions depending on what materials they contain.

After translation on ribosomes in the cytosolic compartment all proteins are processed either in the cytosol or in the ER/Golgi system.